Beyond the Screen of Bliss There Is Bliss
2022 / ongoing
“Beyond the Screen of Bliss There Is Bliss” is a multi-disciplinary project that researches water-based heterotopias. The project examines various mechanisms of control and desire as they manifest themselves in locations such as cruise ships, wellness resorts, school for water-police and a touristic-island. Although inspired from philosophical and critical discourse, the project is first and foremost a curious inquirythrough the artist’s fragile, strange-at times, body.
the works in “Beyond the Screen of Bliss there is Bliss”, are based on methodical combination of documentary perspective and authentic fictionalization of reality. The embedding of a narrative in specific, everyday contexts enables the films to build a bridge between the individual and the universal. This invites the viewer to observe concrete phenomena, to grasp them in a nuanced way through a slow editing speed and to engage with the narrative on a visual level.
The project, developed with the kind support of NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Kunstfonds Working Grant, and currently includes 5 video works and a text that will be published in 2024.
Still from film, “Sunscreen”, HD 1080x1920, 2023
2022 / ongoing
“Beyond the Screen of Bliss There Is Bliss” is a multi-disciplinary project that researches water-based heterotopias. The project examines various mechanisms of control and desire as they manifest themselves in locations such as cruise ships, wellness resorts, school for water-police and a touristic-island. Although inspired from philosophical and critical discourse, the project is first and foremost a curious inquirythrough the artist’s fragile, strange-at times, body.
the works in “Beyond the Screen of Bliss there is Bliss”, are based on methodical combination of documentary perspective and authentic fictionalization of reality. The embedding of a narrative in specific, everyday contexts enables the films to build a bridge between the individual and the universal. This invites the viewer to observe concrete phenomena, to grasp them in a nuanced way through a slow editing speed and to engage with the narrative on a visual level.
The project, developed with the kind support of NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Kunstfonds Working Grant, and currently includes 5 video works and a text that will be published in 2024.
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Placing herself, her mother and an unknown man in an underground room with metal floor, the artist gave strict instructions:
1) The artist stands naked, away from her mother
2) The man pours 1.5 liters of cold water on the artist
3) following a cue, the mother approaches the artist, dries her to the best of her ability, and dresses her in a bathing suit.
4) The mother steps away from the artist and hold a towel as if it was a screen between them. Then, she lets the towel fall.
5) Repeat “
“6 rehearsals toward unknown”, 3 channel video (loop), 2024. Camera: François Weinert
Installation view, galerieGEDOKmuc, München.
Photo: Julia Milberger
Placing herself, her mother and an unknown man in an underground room with metal floor, the artist gave strict instructions:
1) The artist stands naked, away from her mother
2) The man pours 1.5 liters of cold water on the artist
3) following a cue, the mother approaches the artist, dries her to the best of her ability, and dresses her in a bathing suit.
4) The mother steps away from the artist and hold a towel as if it was a screen between them. Then, she lets the towel fall.
5) Repeat “
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Installation view, galerieGEDOKmuc, München.
Photo: Julia Milberger
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Stills from film, “Farewell”, HD 1080x1920, 2023